1.) Where do you prefer to send your Pup/ Dog for training?
Pet shop/ Club/ Individual Ad Hoc Part Timer/ Full Time Trainer
2.) Where do prefer to send you kid for Education?
Register School that operate with proper documents and
ground / Bookshop/ Tuition Centre / Individual part time Tutor
3) Do you know >90% of the dog trainers here are part timer?
Feedback from others and my students:
- Need help can’t find Trainer(s) after training (close / trainer
on course / change hand phone number.....)
- Promise lots of things (syllabus.../ refresher class..) but
end up not full fill
- What they train is not what the owner wants
4) Do you know mostly all the training here are taught basically
for obedience trial (competition) only?
Competition - Basic Obedience (sit, down, stand, stay, heel)
using vary training tools(metal choke chain, spike chain
(prong collar) or electric collar to make sure your dog obey.
You have to march like a robot and your dog have to stick
beside your Left. Your dog cannot be so sociable...etc so that
during the trail it will not be disqualify. If your dog has the
potential, more concentration will be given by your trainer.
~ NO PAIN NO GAIN METHOD ~
5) What kind of dog trainer do your prefer? Experience/ Experiment
- Handler - that train only their dog (ad hoc part timer)
- Instructor - instruct but never touch your dog (ad hoc part timer)
- Trainee (ad hoc part timer)
- Ad hoc Trainers (part -timer)
- Trainer from pet shop / club (selling / training, students/ trainee)
- Full time trainer with months & years of continue training
* Out of 100% trainers in the market 1%, 93%, 4%, 2%
6) What kind of service or syllabus do you expect or require?
- Promise you lots of goodies (gimmick) and can’t full fill later.
- Learning only Basic Obedience for obedience trial.
- Using forceful tools & harsh method on your pup/ dog
- Unofficial way of handling & training area: without proper
document training notes, cert., receipt, not a register school,
train in car park, neighbourhood park, HDB Shelter without
Permit, without any or proper training equipments / facilities...
- A register school with proper equipments, facilities, approved
training ground. committed syllabus that cover all expect of
training including behaviour solving, house breaking,
obedience commands, grooming, health advise... A full time
committed trainer that conduct proper training without
coursing harm or using forceful method to your pup/ dog.
Follow up service for years like free training refresher class &
dogs swimming lessons. ...etc
7) Do you know why most of the Vet. advise puppy to be train
only after 6 month old ?
More then 98% of the trainers here use metal choke chain,
spike chain(prong collar) or electric collar to train pup & dog
here. Your vet may not know whom you send your puppy for
training and how the trainer teach you.
8) Why a “dog lover” would not train their dog(s)?
Feedback from students who keep number of dogs, which was
not train earlier:
- They hear so many bad thing about dog training
- They are not sure what to expect and how the trainer teach
- They want to train their dog for companion not for competition
- They don’t know which trainer to go for, as everyone claim that
they(trainers) are the best and they use the humane way to
train the dog??.
9) What is the market rate for dogs training?
- There is no fix rate. Usually for class training it range from
$300 - $400, home training some are charging from $80/hr
Or $580 - $1400.
- At this moment (2009) new trainer are charging $380-420.
What is more important: Can they Teach/ Commit on what
they Promised/ Type Syllabus cover / whether they train
in a Legal Ground/ any Proper Training Notes, Certificate,
Official Receipt issue/ any Hidden Cost ++ buying thing?
10) What is the duration for dogs training in class:
- 10 year (1999) ago all training is only 8 days 8 hours due
to 100% of the training in the market here are teaching Basic
Obedience and there is a breakup course (pay and pay)
- Now, there is a gimmick 10 days 10 hours, 1st day orientation
last day test. (1 hour per day with break, briefing...etc enough?)